Sentences with phrase «setting lower graduation»

Skeptics could argue that positive effects on graduation and postsecondary attendance could be illusorily if schools are setting lower graduation standards and not actually preparing their students for college or employment.

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If the new Common Core assessments set the high school graduation bar at true college readiness — meaning students are on track to take credit bearing courses from day one — the country is likely to learn that scarcely one - third of all students, and many fewer low - income students, are at that level now.

States set annual district and school targets for grade - level achievement, high school graduation, and closing achievement gaps, for all students, including accelerated progress for subgroups (each major racial and ethnic group, students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from low - income families), and rate schools and districts on how well they meet the targets.

States must identify low - graduation - rate high schools using the four - year adjusted cohort rate; the statute is silent on the graduation rate measure that should be used here even though the four - year rate must be used for goal - setting under the law.

«Statewide, SSC students are identified with more severe disabilities, are more likely to be placed in self - contained settings, and have higher dropout rates and lower graduation rates than students educated in non-SSC districts,» the report said.

And it lowers the grades of states that have embraced privatization and rely on testing to set graduation standards, promotion standards and teacher accountability.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

This report details state - set goals for graduation rates under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, showing how improvement targets are often so low that they undercut the aim of significantly raising graduation rates.

In addition to requiring that states use a standard, accurate calculation of the high school graduation rate, the regulations required states set ambitious goals to improve graduation rates and required school districts to intervene in high schools where students from low - income families, students of color, and other traditionally underserved students had consistently low graduation rates.